Cynthia Lummis

Year by year, is it back end loaded?

Reclaiming my time, this issue is not just an academic discussion on this floor. People in the West are terrified that the Department of the Interior is going to create a new category of lands called ``wild lands'' that will be managed…

I now yield to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas), the chairman of the Ag Committee.

I reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. I don't have a copy of it. The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved. The gentleman from Michigan is recognized for 5 minutes.

The chairman of the subcommittee informs me that he will accept the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment Offered by Mr…

Would you consent to a departure as I use the remainder of my 5 minutes to discuss the issue of the stockyards and the GIPSA rule? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for the remaining time.

With the Chairman's leave, I would consent. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized.

I rise with great temerity in opposition to the amendment by the great gentleman from Michigan. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized for 5 minutes.

Before I withdraw the amendment, I wish to correct that this amendment has never been considered in committee or on the floor. This amendment only applies to the two lines in this horse inspection issue which deal with an individual's…

The gentleman from Virginia inadvertently misrepresented the terms of this amendment. They only applied to the fee-for-service component. With that, Mr. Chairman----

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 77, line 12, strike the semicolon and insert ``; or''. Page 77, line 15, strike ``; or'' and insert a period. Page 77…

It appears from the text of this program, the Ag Marketing Service, that the $77.5 million appropriated may be derived from fees that are collected for the cost of standardization activities as established by regulation, because, if you…

In reclaiming my time, I do not believe that cotton farmers in either the United States or Brazil are more important than WIC Program participants. Mr. McGOVERN. Do you believe we have a hunger problem?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 89, beginning at line 14, strike section 547. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized for 5…

We need to have a serious conversation about any reform option that is put on the table.

I support your Roadmap for America's Future, and I look forward to seeing many of its provisions included in the House budget for Fiscal Year 2012.

Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid will eventually collapse under their own weight if they are left unchanged.

America is ready for this discussion, and they are demanding that we put politics aside in the interests of our Nation.

I support his Roadmap for America's Future, and I look forward to seeing many of its provisions in the House budget for fiscal year 2012.

We must address this unsustainable entitlement issue if we are to preserve entitlements for future generations.

Now, that is why I have introduced a stand-alone bill to increase the retirement age for today's 4-year-olds by 3 years, from the current law of 67 to age 70.

This is no longer a fiscal issue; it is a moral issue.

But the President's 2012 budget proposal would have the taxpayers shell out $844 billion in annual interest on our debt by the next decade, over triple what we pay currently.

I note that MSHA already spends more than $1,600 per miner in the U.S., and OSHA spends $6 for every worker.

When you have got lawyers in front of you and lawyers to the left of you and lawyer spouses to the right of you, it is a little bit like that Jimmy Buffet song 'Fins'.